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1: Drinking Our Own Champagne
Welcome to the first episode of Standing in the Fire, where John Nunemaker, Garrett Dimon, and Kristopher Priemer share their journey as the new owners of Fireside.fm. This podcast isn’t just about running a SaaS business—it’s about living the Fireside experience as podcast hosts and users.
In this episode, we:
Introduce the team and their backgrounds in software, marketing, and entrepreneurship.
Explore the challenges and excitement of owning and improving a podcast hosting platform.
Discuss the importance of drinking your own champagne (aka eating your own dog food) and connecting with customers.
Share our vision for Fireside.fm, from better analytics to fostering a podcaster community.
Join us as we navigate the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, building great software, and helping podcasters thrive.
Links:
- John Nunemaker
- Kristopher Priemer
- Garrett Dimon
- Sifter — The SaaS app that Garrett founded, ran for many years and eventually sold.
- Fireside.fm — Our podcast host!
- Homepage — What we used to record and edit this episode so we could get going quick.
- My First Million Podcast — Good example of fun intros and outros in podcasts.
- Tecmo Super Bowl - Wikipedia — One of John's favorite Nintendo games. He talked about how he is a stats addict and use to track all the stats for this game and tecmo basketball.
- FounderQuest — John mentioned this podcast as a cool intro style where they just start talking.
- Ruby on Rails — The web framework fireside.fm is written in that John and Garrett have extensive experience in.
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By Very Good SoftwareWelcome to the first episode of Standing in the Fire, where John Nunemaker, Garrett Dimon, and Kristopher Priemer share their journey as the new owners of Fireside.fm. This podcast isn’t just about running a SaaS business—it’s about living the Fireside experience as podcast hosts and users.
In this episode, we:
Introduce the team and their backgrounds in software, marketing, and entrepreneurship.
Explore the challenges and excitement of owning and improving a podcast hosting platform.
Discuss the importance of drinking your own champagne (aka eating your own dog food) and connecting with customers.
Share our vision for Fireside.fm, from better analytics to fostering a podcaster community.
Join us as we navigate the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, building great software, and helping podcasters thrive.
Links:
- John Nunemaker
- Kristopher Priemer
- Garrett Dimon
- Sifter — The SaaS app that Garrett founded, ran for many years and eventually sold.
- Fireside.fm — Our podcast host!
- Homepage — What we used to record and edit this episode so we could get going quick.
- My First Million Podcast — Good example of fun intros and outros in podcasts.
- Tecmo Super Bowl - Wikipedia — One of John's favorite Nintendo games. He talked about how he is a stats addict and use to track all the stats for this game and tecmo basketball.
- FounderQuest — John mentioned this podcast as a cool intro style where they just start talking.
- Ruby on Rails — The web framework fireside.fm is written in that John and Garrett have extensive experience in.